Strong’s H3712 · Hebrew

כִּפָּה
kippâh
kip-paw'

Definition

a leaf of a palmtree

Etymology

feminine of H3709 (כַּף);

Where the KJV renders it

  • branch

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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